A common narrative device in historical writing in antiquity was the use of speeches delivered by a historical person, which the historian composed and rendered in direct speech. This work presents, for the first time, a comprehensive comparison of how the most important historians in antiquity used this device. The focus on the historians' speeches is less on their fictionality but on their different functions as literary technique. The essays in this volume explore how the speeches were used to characterize the speaker and other historical persons and to describe historical events from...
A common narrative device in historical writing in antiquity was the use of speeches delivered by a historical person, which the historian composed...
Political communication in the late Roman Republic was highly coloured by rhetorical repertoires featuring disparagement, shaming, and other related phenomena. One of the most prolific perpetrators of such verbal conduct - known as invective - was the orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC). This volume, which gathers the contributions delivered during the conference "Ciceronian Invective. Emotions, Reactions, Performance", held at Dresden's Technische Universitat in 2020, takes a fresh look at the practices reflected in and relating to Cicero's tirades. By comprehending...
Political communication in the late Roman Republic was highly coloured by rhetorical repertoires featuring disparagement, shaming, and other related p...
